Make personnel safety during coronavirus crisis the top priority

The lesson the Canadian Navy can learn from the U.S. is that since we are not at war and the virus is real, the safety of our sailors must take priority over operational duties.
The HMCS Moncton arrives in Montreal during the Great Lakes Deployment on July 29, 2018.
OTTAWA—Earlier this month the Royal Canadian Navy took the precaution of placing two ships’ companies—HMCS Ville de Quebec and Moncton—into a 14-day quarantine at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax prior to their operational deployments. While this course of action meant an additional two ...

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